light-horseman

[ lahyt-hawrs-muhn ]

noun

, plural light-horse·men.

1. a light-armed cavalry soldier.

Word History and Origins

Origin of light-horseman¹

First recorded in 1540–50; light horse + man

Example Sentences

I still had Penelope's hand in mine as in the grip of a vise, so excited was I, when the express came stamping up the stairs in his jack-boots and pistols—a light-horseman of the Albany troop, who seemed smart enough in his mud-splashed helmet and uniform.

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For rumour had come the night before on the heels of a galloping light-horseman, that Sir John was expected to enter the Valley by the Sacandaga route; and that already strange Indians had been seen near Askalege.

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"Impossible!" answered the light-horseman, "for it is a question here of my reputation, for which I am glad to give my life."

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Pan Michael was made happy by the coming amusement, and promised himself to make a present to Pan Longin of mustaches shorn from the light-horseman.

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Estrad�iot, an Albanian dragoon or light-horseman, employed in the French army in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

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